Hunting
Benefits of Frost Seeding Upland Habitat
Frost Seeding Upland Habitat Have you ever wanted to improve your upland hunting and wildlife viewing success on private land? Maybe you have an area you can improve. Iowa has lots of monocultures of pastures that have overtaken idle areas. These monocultures lack structure and variety that wildlife crave, and in turn do not support […]
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Scouting for the 2023 Deer Season : Whitetails 365
Scouting for the 2023 Deer Season : Whitetails 365 It seems as soon as deer season concludes Jan. 10th, I am already looking forward to opening day of bow season October 1st. In February, we get outside to check for sheds and take inventory of which bucks made it through the gun seasons. Finding sheds […]
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2 DIY Taxidermy Projects
2 Do-It-Yourself Taxidermy Projects to Display Your Trophy When it comes to preserving the memory of time out in the timber we often turn to taxidermy to help us preserve the animal as well as the memory. I love walking into a shop or business and looking at different mounts on the wall. Each one […]
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Leveraging Perennial Food on Your Land
Leveraging Perennial Food on Your Land When we begin planning our food plots, often we focus solely on annuals. We focus on turnips, brassicas, radishes, and maybe some soybeans, sorghum, and corn. For the most part those are fantastic because they yield results right away, within a couple months. However, when it comes to long-term […]
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Early Season Shed Hunting: Extra Miles for the Piles
Early Shed Season: Extra Miles for the Piles Once the curtain falls on deer and pheasant season, I consider taking advantage of my last few small game opportunities, but my heart really belongs to the antlered critters, and I know they will soon be antlerless. Honestly, I love shed season about as much as I […]
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Get High For Turkeys
Get High For Turkeys By Bruster Beaty Turkey hunting….by far my favorite species of game to chase! The challenge these non-domesticated, Thanksgiving table fare provide; is what continuously draws me from pillow and quilt to the strategic battle that invariably will be undertaken. As any early morning “brush stumbler” has discovered, these “strut studs” often […]
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Cold Calling New Coyote Properties
Cold Calling New Coyote Properties By Troy Hoepker It doesn’t matter whether it’s deer hunting, pheasant hunting or coyote hunting, each time we gain permission on a new spot we as hunters see visions of limitless birds, huge bucks or dozens of coyotes emerging before our eyes like some fantasy from our dreams that we’ve […]
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A DEER HUNTERS JOURNEY
A Deer Hunters Journey By Ben Leal The North American whitetail deer…one of the most sought after and elusive quarries in Iowa. These animals have keen senses that they use to full advantage, to their advantage and to yours the hunters, disadvantage. They have large ears that can pick up the sound of leaves crunching […]
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So you want to be a dog breeder?
So you want to be a dog breeder? By Ryan Eder Being a dog breeder consists of several responsibilities to your dogs and your clients. You are providing customers with a family member and a twelve plus year commitment; not a responsibility one should take lightly. The time and money necessary to have healthy and […]
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New Year’s Resolutions for Sportsman
New Year’s Resolutions for Sportsman By Ben Leal New Year’s Eve…2022… we’ll be up late and watch the ball drop in New York City signifying the sunset of the year and the dawn of a new one. Like every year that has come and gone, folks from all walks of life resolve to make a […]
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